FLORHAM PARK -- No Jets player will be more expensive to keep on the roster in 2014 under his current contract terms than cornerback Antonio Cromartie.

Cromartie, who signed a four-year, $32 million contract before the 2011 season, is slated to earn approximately $9.5 million in '14, the final year of that deal, but he will count as $14.98 million against the salary cap. Thursday, he said he'd be willing to again restructure his agreement to remain with the team.

"Definitely," Cromartie said. "This is where I want to be. My family loves it here. I think the biggest thing, for me, is just to make sure that going into this last game I'm playing to the best of my ability.

"At the end of the day, no matter what you do, your last name is your resume. That's how I want to go about it. I'm here. My family wants to be here, and this is where I want to retire."

But how much do the Jets want him here beyond Sunday's season finale in Miami? The 2014 season with be Cromartie's ninth in the NFL. He's missed just three regular-season games since 2007, but for much of this year, Cromartie has been hampered by a nagging injury to his hip that dates back to when played through a hip fracture in 2008 (when he was with the Chargers).

The hip ailment has affected Cromartie's play this season: Pro Football Focus gives him a cumulative grade of minus -9.7, just one year after he earned a grade of 10.0, which ranked him among the best cornerbacks in the league.

Cromartie did tell reporters Thursday that he intends to see a hip specialist after the season.

Joel Corry, a former sports agent and a salary cap expert for the National Football Post, explained that the Jets can't do anything about Cro's $5.48 million cap hit, even if they were to release him before the start of the new league year in March. If the Jets want to keep him, Corry said, they could lower his cap number by cutting his pay or doing a restructure/extension.

"With a restructure/extension," Corry explained, "they could take a significant portion of his $9.5 million salary, convert it to signing bonus, add years to his contract, and prorate that amount over the life of his new deal (for a maximum of 5 years)."

The Jets likely would not want to absorb Cromartie's 2014 contract under its current terms. Would they be willing to do another restructure, perhaps by extending him beyond 2014? Or would they prefer to hit the reset button and eat that $5.48 million next year, when they figure to create plenty of cap space by releasing Mark Sanchez and Santonio Holmes? Just some more questions for general manager John Idzik to answer in the months ahead.